davno sam rekao da postoje dvije vrste ljudi koje kad procitaju ovakvu knjigu, jedan od njih ce reci wow i potpuno ga uzet u otkrivanje, proucavanje, vjerovanje.
. . a drugi ce procitat i reci "jebote, sta sam ja to procitao"
No, eto danas pisem nekako vise iz ovog drugog, jer me proslo doba otkrivanja,
Uglavnom, knjiga je predivno pisana, tolika ljubav prema Moonlit Goddess cak i naporna na trenutke, iskreno sam ocekivao takav rasplet na kraju,
Mogu iskreno reci da su mi snovi poprilicno u bojama i mastoviti u zadnje vrijeme, zato Moonlit Goddess, bojaj me Ljepotom, "It was around this time that I began to realise that the waking part of Steve Moore's life, the part I knew, was just the iceberg's tip, There was another life entirely going on below the waterline, "
Alan Moore
An utterly spellbinding and poignant work of imaginative fiction, At its best it has you entranced in its radiant splendour, let down at times only by my own mental incapacity to keep up with its majestic visions.
Despite stiff literary competition, no one else to my mind has managed to fuse dreams with reality in such a dazzling, evocative way, With its silken prose, kaleidoscopic narrative structure, and richness of detail, the technical elements are all there, But the pleasure of bearing witness to such a vast imaginative landscape is what renders this a real masterpiece,
Add to this the gorgeous cover design and production quality from Strange Attractor Press, and I have a work that I can really treasure, Really excellent and unusual fantasy novel, Steve Moores prose is evocative of the several time period the novel covers, and his delight in the use of language shines through the Somnium's manyfaceted layers and styles.
Moores ideas are weaved through a vast span of narratives, meeting themselves in strange and unexpected literary byways, Not only a fully fleshedout romance, but also a selfreferencing work that playfully touches on several literary styles with ease and delight, There is an erotic tension lingering throughout the novel, which is handled quite beautifully, and Moores love for decadent prose often shines through in these sequences, The novel is not easy to compare to anything that springs to mind, and as Alan Moore points out in the afterword, it truly does feel like it was written for an entirely different time.
It's part decadent fantasy, part heartfelt love letter to the many divine forms of the moon, Somniums lunar desires are written with so much love, knowledge, and care for both the subject matter and the inner workings of the narrative, which makes it a strange and romantic delight to read.
I've just finished reading Somnium for the third time my copy is one of my most treasured possessions, I daren't take the risk of allowing it to leave the house each time i read it like the titular lunar palace it seems to have grown.
More complete, more complex, more stunning, this time it was much darker than previously, there was threat and horror, it was almost too claustrophobic to keep reading,
this book is like the fanciest cake you have ever laid eyes on, a decorative beautiful marvel of the art with many layers and wondrous flavours, but try to eat it all at once and you'll feel sick i say this having forced myself through all but the first ten pages over the course of today.
there is so much to this book, so much ambiguity, it begins as an unconventional romance, becomes even more unconvential, and by the end is the most stunning metafictional display i have ever seen, it never stoops to self conscious games, it is always deadly serious, never pleased with itself, never show offy.
it is exactly what it needs to be, it's a glorious paean to the writer's art but by demonstration of what that art can do, rather than being content to merely tell the reader what fiction can do, it does it.
this book is significant in my life, and it's more than reassuring to see that it holds up as a great work as well as holding emotional significance.
read it if you can, somehow, they've stopped selling the kindle edition and there's no sign of the promised paperback yet alan's cassandra complex was indeed a bit off, but of his awareness on the sublimity of craft, he is spot on this is a masterpiece.
like steve levitch said in 'waking life, "before you drift off, don't forget, which is to say remember, because remembering is so much more a psychotic activity than forgetting, lorca, in that same poem said that the iquana will bite those who do not dream, and as one realizes that one is a dream figure in another person's dream, that is self awareness, " Astonishing. As unwieldy and captivating in structure as the best, maddest gothic novels Alan Moore mentions Potocki in his afterword, but I was also reminded of Melmoth the Wanderer yet in tone more like Swinburne, had he written a novel off the back of a Clark Ashton Smith binge.
The best autobiographical novel setyears
ago you're ever likely to read, and in terms of bringing the Greek myths to modern London, akin to a less frenzied Greek Street.
Easily one of my favorite novels, It is mind blowing in an all too real way, Better review pending. Steve MooreJuneMarch
Blessed be,
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